Joe is out there
Posted on 08/18/2020 3:56:36 PM PDT by ammodotcom
The Book of Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun. And while many have spoken of the “unprecedented” nature of the rioting in the early summer of 2020, it is actually quite precedented.
The Long, Hot Summer of 1967 was the peak of urban unrest and rioting in the United States in the lead up to the 1968 election. While there are certainly a number of key differences, there are also a number of striking parallels that make the topic worthy of discussion and examination.
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“Summer of Love” ping
At that time I was otherwise out of the country...
while communists tried to kill me.
Are Portland, Seattle, and Chicongo 2020 better or worse than the rioting cities of 1967?
I think that the riots were as bad, but they weren’t as, uh, “popular” as they seem to be now. They didn’t have the support of a mainline party (the Dems), the mayors, the governors, and the prosecutors. So, I’d say today’s are more dangerous.
On the slightly plus side, the 1967 riots were almost totally racial, to my memory. Today’s have a significant racial component (black looting in Chicago, for example), but an amount of masked white boy Antifa support that didn’t exist in 1967.
Joe is out there
At that time I was otherwise out of the country...
while communists tried to kill me.
I had a lot of fun that year. A lot of fun.
After the USSR-supported riots began coincident with the Tet Offensive, LBJ said he wouldn't run for reelection, Humphrey the squawky 2D liberal VP ran poorly in the primaries, RFK was riding high and was assassinated, Clean Gene Muskie and the rest got dumped, Humphrey won the nomination, but the Democrat war he'd been party to didn't help him much. Nixon won in a squeaker in 1968, won 48 or 49 states in 1972, resigned after months of impeachment hearings. Trump won in 2016, the phony impeachment and tax record harassment began immediately, THE WITCH HUNT FAILED, and he was handed a DNC nominee of his dreams. In the hour of the wolf (which is 24/7 nowadays) much of the Great Middle can't vote for Biden because they can't stand the idea of Harris succeeding Biden after his no-doubt natural causes death or removal under the 25th.
They were on the home front even then teaching
a generation of teachers.
We are at a point they have been working towards for
a hundred years.
I was still in high school, a Boy Scout, doing my best to counter these idiots. I enlisted at 17 in 71. I admire and appreciate your service. As you recall, wearing your uniform in public back then was not “honored” like it is today. I had to wait a few more years to get shot at. :). God bless.
1967, and we all got relevant. It just was never the same.
In Southern California, the summer of 1967 was hot and smoggy. In August, we were bracing for Hurricane Katrina, which would have been the first hurricane to hit the Southland since 1939, but the storm veered east, devastating Baja California before moving into Arizona.
I miss the Doors.
I was just a toddler during the Vietnam war.
I never understood why people were so openly disrespectful to returning soldiers. Can’t fathom the thought even for a moment.
The riots of 1967 only lasted a few days, but they were probably more destructive.
There were no race riots in California, but we read about them in the newspaper, and some of us believed that a race war was about to break out.
In the 6 Presidential elections that followed the riots of 1967-1968, the Republican candidate won 5 of them, of which 4 were 400+ Electoral College landslides.
Unprecented pandemic too.
CDC website notes pandemics of 1918, 1957 and 1968.
My memory of that year is that you were either pro war or anti war, nothing in between tolerated by the left. Much like today. The left’s behavior and intolerance then prompted me to enlist in 1968. I’d do it again. But now I’m too old to fight so I confine myself to supporting those that are taking my place.
The Doors--one of the better rock groups of the era.
In the summer of 1967, I was listening mostly to KWIZ, an AM station that played mostly "oldies" of the 1950's and early '60's. However, an occasional "newie" would sneak onto the playlist--usually a tune by an artist like Dean Martin or Engelbert Humperdinck, but never the Doors, the Strawberry Alarm Clock or the Jefferson Airplane--you could hear those on KRLA or Boss Radio 93 KHJ.
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